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From: pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron)
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Subject: Re: Are underbars considered bad form for addresses in
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Date: 1 Apr 88 17:10:50 GMT
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In article <4289@hoptoad.uucp> pozar@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Pozar) writes:
>   As the subject says...  Can underbars be used in the name of
>   the user in the address of INTERNET or UUCP addresses?
>    
>       eg.  Tim_Pozar@fidogate.fidonet.org

Interpretation of anything to the left of the "@" sign is left up to
the recieving host.  In theory, you can put anything there (even delimiter
characters, if you enclose the whole thing on the left with quotation
marks).

--Pat.